After nearly 10 years, it's time for the Scripting Helpers website to start winding down. The technology that powers the website is showing its age, with performance problems, technical limitations, and Roblox API updates causing problems that would require a large time investment to fix. Not to mention - 10 years of technical debt adds up! The role of this website has largely been replaced by Roblox's official DevForum, with activity slowing down here over the last few years. So at this point, closing things down seems to make the most sense.

Hundreds of thousands of questions and answers have been posted on this website over the years. This content will be preserved indefinitely as the Scripting Helpers website transitions into read-only mode. As of the time of this post, the content that is currently available on the website will be frozen and will remain accessible into the foreseeable future.

Eventually, the current website will be replaced with a static version without any dynamic features. The hope is that the static version of the website should be fast and resilient, able to stand on its own without any maintenance required.

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Hello Scripting Helpers community,

Unfortunately, private user data was accessed from our forum website (previously hosted on forum.scriptinghelpers.org), which was closed earlier this year.

Only data accessible from the forum software was released. No data from the main website was breached.

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• Roblox Username
• Email address
• Previously used IP addresses
• Ban reasons

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One of the most common requests I get for blog post topics are for a decoration placement system that saves. I’ve shied away from this topic in the past as there is no singular “correct” way to do it. That being said, I think it's a good exercise for all game devs to go through and will potentially place a role in a future blog post I plan to write.

In addition to change things up, I’ll also take the time to explain and use Object Oriented Programming (OOP) as it’s not only my own preferred style, but also something Roblox uses for their core scripts.

Most of the posts that I make tend to be very mathematical and aimed at experienced developers. Today's post is instead going to be aimed at those of you who are newer to the platform, and are looking for a project to practice your skills on. We will be going over how we can make our very own game of Simon says!

It's been quite awhile since Scripting Helpers hosted its last Snack Break challenge but I'm excited to breath some life into this three-year tradition! For those of you who are unfamiliar, the goal of a Snack Break is to provide a quick and thought provoking challenge that programmers of all skill levels can get something out of.

As a somewhat active member of the Scripting Helpers discord one of the most common questions I see is how to have a projectile travel an arc. Most people want to know how to do this for things like basketballs or cannon balls and so forth. Since this is such a popular question I thought it would be worth writing a blog post on it and talking about a few other things we can extend from our findings.

In this post we will be talking about creating our very own filtering enabled friendly first person shooter (FPS) game. I do want to make clear though that I won't be covering how to actually make the weapon shoot in this article. All we are going to be covering is the visuals meaning having the character aim down sights, look up and down, etc. Maybe we'll talk about shooting another day.